I finally got Windows 7 purchased and installed this afternoon. Now I’m in the process of re-installing every piece of software that I use regularly. The firewall and anti-virus weren’t too bad, but I had a hell of a time with Quicken. I don’t really have time for it, but I’m so tired of the [...]
Also tagged Personal, whiningYes, boys and girls, I really did it this time. My operating system is officially toast. Looks like I’ll be out buying a copy of Windows 7 in the morning. For tonight, I’m just going to re-install Linux on the hard drive I wanted it on in the first place and then I’ll work on [...]
Also tagged Personal, whiningInteresting, as in “may you live in interesting times and be noticed by important people.” I’m trying to teach myself to write small programs in JAVA (it’s a long story). I was having some problems with the JAVA development stuff causing some conflicts with some of my other programs so I decided to install the [...]
Also tagged Personal, pointless gestures, whiningA partial history of computer Icons. Pretty cool, especially if you are old enough to remember several of these Icon sets. Personally, I started with Windows 3.1. (Via GeekPress)
Also taggedIf you have no interest in dual-boot installations of Linux, come back tomorrow. I promise I’ll be on to something else by then. I installed Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on my 2nd hard drive a few days ago. It’s a pretty easy install. Either that or I’ve done it enough times that it isn’t quite as [...]
Also tagged blogspeak, pointless gesturesI have routinely joked that the problem with my disposable income is that someone else always disposes of it for me. Until last week, that “someone” was always a member of the Ratlands clan. Last week, someone hijacked my PayPal account and bought 6 million chips at an online poker site. They attempted to buy [...]
Also tagged Personal7 tabs open in my browser. I’m not going to get around to writing about any of them, so here they are. A post on how Apple screws over developers who want to do apps for the iPhone. Tim Lee’s take on the piece is that top-down organizations will always think they are expending extraordinary [...]
Also tagged Economics, foreign policy, health care, humor, ObamaI was going to work on an essay this afternoon, but I spent 5 hours trying to get my Linksys router to be recognized by my computer. Then, for no apparent reason, everything worked just fine. Cisco (who’s products I’m generally quite fond of; we use a lot of their stuff at work with great [...]
Also tagged global warming, health care, lie to me, quotesI’ve spent most of the evening working on a new router to get the Head Rat’s laptop hooked up wirelessly. It’s a new Linksys router and it set up just fine on the desktop. It even connected fine via cable to the laptop. Unfortunately, every time I tried to turn on the wireless adapter, the [...]
Also tagged wtf?Well, boys and girls, I’ve got a bit of a break in what has been about the ugliest week I’ve had for quite a while. The turning 50 part didn’t bother me. Being repeatedly told I am the quintessential embodiment of evil (repeatedly, at volume) didn’t bother me either. But having it happen while running [...]
Also tagged pointless gesturesRatlands is using WP-Gravatar